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Treatment for chaotic Heart Qi (from *Zisheng Jing*). Acupoint: Xinshu (BL15).

Treatment for restlessness, palpitations, and forgetfulness caused by wind-stroke. Acupoint: Baihui (DU20).

Treatment for forgetfulness. Acupoints: Shendao (DU11), Youmen (KI15), Lieque (LU7), Gaohuangshu (BL43).

Main indication for aversion to wind and evil qi, tearing, and propensity to forget. Acupoints: Baihui (DU20), Tianfu (LU3), Quchi (LI11), Lieque (LU7).

Main indication for forgetfulness. Needle the Foot-Shaoyin Kidney Meridian acupoints.

Main indication for palpitations and lack of strength. Acupoint: Dahan (SP15). Moxibustion: 50 moxa cones.

Treatment for insufficient Heart power. Acupoints: Baihui (DU20), Juque (CV14).

Treatment for a stifling sensation in the chest. Acupoint: Shangwan (CV13).

Treatment for loss of will (mental confusion and loss of volition). Acupoint: Weiyang (BL39).

Treatment for insufficiency of Shen Qi and loss of will. Acupoint: Zhongchong (PC9).

Main indication for loss of will. Acupoint: Neiguan (PC6).

Main indication for a confused and uncomfortable sensation in the heart. Acupoint: Tonggu (BL65).

Treatment for stifling Qi in the chest and aversion to hearing people speak. Acupoint: Jiawei (CV15).

Treatment for insufficient Heart power and forgetting recent events while recalling distant ones. Acupoint: Baihui (DU20).

Master Wang said: I previously suffered from Heart Qi disorder. Whenever I overthought, I would experience palpitations below the heart, even to the point of self-pity and emotional sighing. I must moxa Baihui (DU20) because Baihui treats the syndrome of insufficient Heart power and forgetfulness (simultaneously administer Zhenxin Dan).

When the Heart is Excess, there is sudden severe pain in the chest; when Deficient, there is restlessness, terror with inability to move, and loss of intelligence (from *Zisheng Jing*). Acupoint: Neiguan (PC6).

Treatment for sudden heartache with sweating. Acupoint: Dadun (LR1). Prick to bleed for immediate cure.

Treatment for heartache. Acupoints: Xinshu (BL15), Danzhong (CV17), Tonggu (BL65), Juque (CV14), Taicang (CV12/Zhongwan), Shenfu, Men (textual anomaly or specific alias), Quze (PC3), Daling (PC7).

Treatment for heartache with shortness of breath. Acupoints: Qimen (LR14), Changqiang (DU1), Tiantu (CV2), Xiabai (LU2), Zhongchong (PC9).

Treatment for heartache sounding like "peng peng," mental restlessness, chest stifling, scanty Qi insufficient for respiration. Acupoint: Chize (LU5).

Treatment for a feeling of emptiness in the heart as if suspended, with scanty Qi insufficient for respiration. Acupoint: Ran Gu (KI2).

Treatment for stifling pain in the heart with Qi rebellion pulling into the Small Intestine. Acupoint: Juque (CV14). Moxibustion: 14 moxa cones (two sevens).

Treatment for heartache with a hanging sensation. Acupoints: Shenshu (BL23), Fuliou (KI7), Daling (PC7), Yunmen (LU2).

Treatment for a feeling of emptiness in the heart resembling hunger. Acupoint: Jianshi (PC5).

Treatment for heartache like needle pricking. In severe cases where hands and feet are cold up to the joints and do not recover, death ensues (from *Baoming Ji*). Acupoints: Zhigou (TE6), Taixi (KI3), Ran Gu (KI2).

Treatment for heartache with a pale complexion like dead ash, unable to take deep breaths all day. Acupoint: Xingjian (LR2).

Treatment for Cold in the Heart causing distension and fullness, inability to eat, Xibi spitting blood, Jue-type heartache, frequent hiccups, Xinhan sighing. Acupoint: Jiawei (CV15).

Treatment for chest-spleen heartache, inability to turn side to side, and inability to breathe. Pain location is irregular. Acupoint: Linqi (GB15).

Treatment for heartache making flexion and extension difficult, and treatment for body Cold, Xinhan rushing upward causing coma. Acupoint: Zhongwan (CV12).

Treatment for pain attacking the heart. Acupoints: Fujie (ST25), Xingjian (LR2).

Treatment for sudden pain, mental restlessness, internal frustration, frequent yawning and stretching, palpitations below the heart, and sadness. Acupoint: Tongli (HT5).

Treatment for heartache where grief and fear induce convulsions. Acupoint: Lingdao (HT4).

Treatment for Qi rebelling upward to the chest due to heartache, anorexia, and body edema. Acupoint: Jianli (CV11).

Treatment for heartache with vomiting. Acupoint: Zhangmen (LR13).

Treatment for heartache with Lung distension and rebellious Stomach Qi. Acupoint: Yongquan (KI1).

Treatment for Cold in the Heart causing distension and fullness, inability to eat. Acupoint: Jiawei (CV15).

Treatment for sudden diarrhea, heartache, abdominal distension, with heartache being particularly severe (from *Baoming Ji*). Acupoints: Dabu (SP2), Taibai (SP3).

Treatment for heartache with three types of parasites, excessive saliva, and inability to turn side to side. Acupoint: Shangwan (CV13).

Treatment for cutting heartache with preference for belching sour fluid. Acupoints: Burong (ST19), Qimen (LR14).

Treatment for heartache accompanied by Cold sensations. Acupoint: Shaochong (HT9).

Treatment for Cold pain below the heart, and also treatment for Spleen Deficiency causing low mood and frequent sighing. Acupoint: Shangqiu (SP5).

Treatment for Chest Bi heartache. Acupoints: Tianjing (TE16), Linqi (GB15), Danzhong (CV17). Or moxa 100 cones.

Treatment for chest-heartache and various heart-related pains in the chest and abdomen. Acupoints: Danzhong (CV17), Tianjing (TE16). Moxa Taicang (CV12) and Ganshu (BL18).

Treatment for fullness in the chest, abdomen, and heart, with stagnation and pain. Moxa Ganshu (BL18).

Treatment for heartache. Acupoint: Zhongwan (CV12).

Treatment for heartache. Acupoint: Jianli (CV11).

Treatment for heartache with generalized Bi obstruction. Acupoint: Ge Shu (BL17).

Treatment for heartache with generalized Bi obstruction and irregular pain locations. Acupoint: Linqi (GB15).

Treatment for Heart Bi. Acupoint: Yuji (LU10).

Master Wang said: My wife once served her sick parent for days without eating, resulting in Heart-Spleen pain. Attacks would strike the heart and abdomen, followed by heartache. When the pain became unbearable, she prepared to say goodbye to her children. After administering medicine, the pain worsened. If whole-body moxibustion were applied, her body could not withstand it. I reluctantly had my children use fire needles for slight pricking, not restricted to the heart or abdomen. The pain settled within moments, and she was able to rise. Truly miraculous.

Treatment for heartache where grief and fear induce convulsions, elbow contracture, sudden aphonia, and inability to speak. Acupoint: Lingdao (HT4).

Treatment for heartache with dry retching and mental fullness/restlessness. Acupoint: Xiabai (LU2).

Treatment for heartache with dry retching. Acupoint: Jiquan (HT1).

Treatment for heartache with hemoptysis, chills, dry throat, delirium, and deviation of the mouth and eye. Acupoint: Taiyuan (LU9).

Treatment for heartache with mental fullness/restlessness and stiff tongue. Acupoints: Yinxi (HT6), Zhongchong (PC9).

Treatment for heartache. Acupoints: Jueyinshu (BL44), Shenmen (HT7).

Treatment for red face, mental restlessness, and pain. Acupoint: Yinjiao (DU27).

Treatment for chest and heart pain. Acupoint: Tianjing (TE16).

Treatment for unbearable heartache and inability to lie down. Acupoint: Xiawan (CV10).

Treatment for a hanging sensation in the heart with lower pain. Acupoint: Daling (PC7).

Treatment for unbearable heartache. Acupoints: Shangwan (CV13), Daling (PC7).

Treatment for panting with heartache. Acupoint: Zhangmen (LR13).

Treatment for pain below the heart, anorexia, and heartache with phlegm-fluids. Acupoints: Jianli (CV11), Yongquan (KI1).

Treatment for various types of heartache: Cold pain, Ascaris heartache, Gu poison, Huoluan with unconsciousness, and treatment for Ascaris heartache and Gu poison. Acupoint: Juque (CV14).

Treatment for heartache with inability to eat, reverse regurgitation, and Huoluan heartache. Acupoint: Zhongwan (CV12).

Treatment for heartache. Acupoints: Quze (PC3), Dushu (BL12), Geshu (BL17).

Treatment for heartache with poor appetite. Acupoint: Yongquan (KI1).

Treatment for sudden heartache. Acupoint: Shaochong (HT9).

Treatment for alternating Cold and Heat heartache, back traction pain, chest fullness/stifling, cough with inability to breathe, mental restlessness, and excess saliva. Acupoint: Xinshu (BL15).

Treatment for unbearable heartache with hematemesis and mental restlessness. Acupoint: Juque (CV14).

Treatment for unbearable sudden heartache, vomiting of cold acidic water, and absence of Zang Qi. Moxa the inner horizontal crease between the first and second toes of the foot, one cone each. Moxa cone size like a wheat grain. Immediate cure.

Treatment for internal frustration with slight pain, nausea, and rebellion. Acupoint: Xinshu (BL15). Moxa 100 cones.

Treatment for heartache like needle/knife stabbing with Qi knotting. Acupoint: Geshu (BL17). Moxa 7 cones.

Treatment for Cold Qi rising due to heartache. Acupoint: Longhan (GV28 - textual variant/alias). Moxa 100 cones.

Treatment for heartache with evil Qi rising and urgent hypochondriac pain. Acupoint: Tonggu (BL65). Moxa 50 cones.

Treatment for sudden strangulating heartache, urgency, and near-death state. Acupoint: Shenfu (CV16 - textual variant/alias). Moxa 100 cones. Caution: This point is contraindicated directly over the heart opposite Jiawei.

Treatment for sudden severe heartache with evil Qi. Acupoint: Juque (CV14). Moxa 100 cones.

Treatment for hard, urgent heartache with Qi knotting. Acupoint: Taicang (CV12). Moxa 100 cones.

Treatment for heartache. Moxa the wrist transverse crease on the arm, 21 cones. Also moxa the white flesh margin at both tiger mouths, 7 cones each.

Treatment for Kidney heartache. First select Jinggu (BL64) and Kunlun (BL60). If needling does not resolve it, select Ran Gu (KI2).

Treatment for Stomach heartache. Select Dabu (SP2) and Taibai (SP3).

Treatment for Spleen heartache. Select Ran Gu (KI2) and Taixi (KI3).

Treatment for Liver heartache, with a pale complexion like dead ash and inability to rest all day (from *Baoming Ji*). Select Xingjian (LR2) and Taichong (LR3).

Treatment for Liver heartache. Select Yuji (LU10) and Taiyuan (LU9).

Treatment for heartache that cannot be pressed, with mental restlessness. Acupoint: Juque (CV14).

Main indication for heartache with three parasites, excess saliva, and inability to turn side to side (from *Weishi Fang*). Acupoint: Shangwan (CV13).

Main indication for heartache with body Cold, difficulty in flexion/extension, Xinhan rushing to the Stomach, and coma. Acupoint: Zhongwan (CV12).

Main indication for heartache like needle pricking. Acupoints: Ran Gu (KI2), Taixi (KI3).

Main indication for sudden pain in the heart and abdomen. Acupoint: Shimen (CV5).

Main indication for heartache. Acupoints: Yinxi (HT6), Xingjian (LR2).

Treatment for sudden heartache with much fright, aphonia, inability to speak, and a sensation of a fishbone in the throat. Acupoint: Jianshi (PC5).

Treatment for heartache prone to fright. Acupoint: Quze (PC3).

Treatment for heartache with epistaxis, vomiting, hiccups, fright, fear of people, and insufficiency of Shen Qi. Acupoint: Men (textual anomaly or specific alias).

Treatment for heartache with chest/hypochondriac fullness, cough, Ying Bi, and pain along the medial aspect of the arm. Acupoint: Tianquan (SI10).

Treatment for chronic malaria with cough/reversal of Qi, heartache like needle pricking, Cold hands/feet passing the joints, and panting (death ensues). Acupoint: Taixi (KI3).

The "Nine Types" of heartache refer to Heart-Spleen pain, not True Heartache. True Heartache results in death if onset is in the morning (dies evening) or evening (dies morning), as recorded in *Nan Jing*.

However, this disease has its origins. Discussions state that postpartum heartache, if mistakenly treated as trauma, leads to extreme Deficiency and severe Cold in the Heart collaterals, transmitting to the True Heart Meridian and becoming True Heartache. This is one theory. Wu Chen, due to the summer campaign against Zheng, resented Zi Fan, saying, "I will make you die from exhaustion." Zi Fan ran on missions seven times in one year, eventually succumbing to a Heart disease from overexertion. Thus, how should one act? One should nurture the Heart daily to maintain peace, preventing disease. Secondly, administer tonics like Zhenxin Dan. If disease is impending, acupuncture/moxibustion can be a secondary measure.

Treatment for Cold pain in the heart and abdomen.

Wang Shi's Jade Belly Pad Method: Use 4 liang of magnetic sand (needle sand), stir-fry until smoke appears. Add 0.5 liang of alum. Mix with half a qian each of sand powder and frost. Blend with fresh water until slightly damp. Apply with leather paper inside the garment. When hot, place on Shenque (CV8), Qihai (CV6), Shimen (CV5), Guanyuan (CV4) to strongly tonify the Primordial Yuan. Or apply to other cold areas; sweating indicates immediate cure. I have verified this personally. If the medicine dries and loses heat, re-moisten with fresh water to reactivate; usable over ten times. If potency is exhausted, dry and add alum again to restore heat. My brother Shuhao passed down a formula using only magnetic sand and mud alum, with identical efficacy. Is it avoided because sand powder/frost is expensive?

Wang Shi said: I previously suffered from Heart Bi, with unbearable pain upon attack. I urgently placed a tile in charcoal fire until red-hot, removed it, and quenched it in rice vinegar. Wrapped in two-three layers of paper, I applied it to the painful area. It provided slight relief; replaced when cold. This was transmitted by elders. Later, reading *Qianjin Fang*, it states: For any Cold pain in heart/abdomen, half salt can be heated for ironing, or silkworm sand/bricks/stones steamed for ironing, utilizing internal warmth to stop pain. Steaming earth is also excellent. I realized my family's method originated from *Qianjin Fang*. Another time, severe heartache led me to moxa Zhongwan several cones. I felt Cold Qi in both sides of the lower abdomen rising upwards, dissipating upon reaching the moxa site. This demonstrates the efficacy of moxibustion. *Ben Shi Fang* records Wang Sihe discussing Xin Song (palpitations). It is not Xin Song but the Great Luo of the Stomach, named Jianli (CV11), connecting the chest/diaphragm and between the breasts. Deficiency with Phlegm causes movement, followed by a burst of heat. If so, moxa Jianli is appropriate, though Zhongwan is more crucial.

Treatment for heartache and pediatric heartache. Moxa the middle segment of the big toe, 3 cones, then stop. Male left, female right. If Ascaris drilling into the heart causes severe pain, doctors who do not understand the syndrome rely on analgesics, which is far off. In worm pain, the face turns blue-black during attacks, the patient lies supine clutching hands, feels faint and near death, and vomits clear fluid.

Treatment for heartache. In the chaotic lines of the sole of the foot, use wheat-grain-sized moxa cones, moxa 3 cones. Male left, female right. Moxa during peak pain.

Treatment for True Heartache. Discussion states: Hands/feet cyanotic to joints, severe heartache. Morning onset dies evening, evening onset dies morning. Treatment for heartache and even after death (from *Baoming Ji*). Elevate the pillow, flex the knees to soften the abdominal skin. Moxa Weiwan (CV12), 3 cun above the umbilicus. Soon, the patient suffers pain and shortness of breath, wanting someone to raise their hand. Within the time of a small hand raise, pain alleviates.

Treatment for Ascaris heartache. Press and hold firmly with hand to prevent movement. Insert a large needle, hold for a long time. Withdraw needle only when the parasite stops moving. Do not prick randomly below the heart; if masses are present, avoid Shu points. If intestinal Ascaris biting, do not use small needles.

Treatment for heartache pulling to the lower back/spine with desire to vomit, and inability to breathe (from *Baoming Ji*). Needle Foot-Shaoyin. If ineffective, select Hand-Shaoyin.

Treatment for heartache with abdominal distension, aversion to cold, and constipation (from *Baoming Ji*). Needle Foot-Taiyin.

Treatment for heartache pulling to lower abdominal fullness, irregular location, and difficult urination/defecation (from *Baoming Ji*). Needle Foot-Jueyin.

Treatment for heartache with only shortness of breath insufficient for respiration (from *Baoming Ji*). Needle Hand-Taiyin.

Treatment for draining Heat in Jue-type heartache (from *Baoming Ji*). Taixi (KI3) moxa 3 cones, or 5-7 cones.

Treatment for draining Heat in Jue-type pain (from *Baoming Ji*). Kunlun (BL60) moxa 3 cones, or 5-7 cones.

Treatment for heartache connected to the back, with much fear, sensation of being touched from behind, and stooping. This is Kidney heartache (from *Baoming Ji*). First needle Jinggu (BL64) and Kunlun (BL60). If ineffective, needle Hegu (LI4).

Treatment for heartache worsening with movement in the room despite lying down for long periods, with unchanged complexion. This is Lung heartache (from *Baoming Ji*). Needle Yuji (LU10) and Taiyuan (LU9) to promote Qi circulation and remove stagnation for cure.

Treatment for unbearable sudden heartache. Needle Ren Mai Shangwan (CV13), insert 8 fen. Tonify first, then sedate. Needling sensation should feel like rolling egg yolk under the needle, penetrating to the abdomen. Next needle Qihai (CV6) bilateral, Yongquan (KI1) bilateral. Without accumulation, needle for the duration of a meal. With accumulation, administer purgatives first, then needle for immediate cure. If ineffective, needle Jianshi (PC5) bilateral, Zhigou (TE6) bilateral, then Sanli (ST36) bilateral. For Cold heartache, use burning needle oblique on Ren Mai Juque (CV14). For heartache caused by interference among Five Zang Qi, needling ensures cure. For Xiao Chang Qi Pi or Bladder Qi hypochondriac pain radiating to the heart, examine carefully; do not needle rigidly. If sweating occurs, prick Dadun (LR1) to bleed for immediate cure.

Treatment for rebellious Qi in abdomen attacking heart/abdomen with fullness, Qi rushing to heart causing pain and breathing difficulty, Qi rushing to waist causing pain and inability to flex/extend. Moxa "Qi Chong" points 7 cones each, size like barley grain. Contraindicate needling. Next needle Sanli (ST36) bilateral for cure.

Treatment for heartache with Zhou Bi. Acupoints: Geshu (BL17), Linqi (GB15).

Treatment for heartache with shortness of breath, palmar heat, crying/scolding, sorrowful thoughts, red face, body heat, and Excess-large-rapid pulse. Treatable. Spring: Needle Zhongchong (PC9). Summer: Needle Laogong (PC8). Late Summer: Needle Daling (PC7). All Tonify. Autumn: Needle Jianshi (PC5). Winter: Needle Quze (PC3). All Sedate. Additionally, moxa Juque (CV14) 50 cones, and Back 5th Vertebra 100 cones.

Treatment for sudden Xinhan pain. Select Foot-Taiyin.

Treatment for sudden heartache (from *Zhouhou Fang*). Moxa the tip of the central long finger of the hand, 3 cones. Also, measure horizontally across the patient's mouth, use this width to measure from the heart depression to the head, moxa 3 cones.

Treatment for激痛 (intense/sharp) Xinhan pain unbearable (from *Zhouhou Fang*). Juque (CV14) and 1 cun left/right, moxa 100 cones each. Also, measure neck and spine, align them positively, moxa six points total.

Treatment for sudden heart/abdominal fullness/pain (from *Zhouhou Fang*). Moxa 1 cun below nipple, 7 cones. Also, moxa 1 cone each at the first crease behind the claw on the fleshy border of both thumbs. Also, moxa 1 cone each under the claws of the central long fingers of both hands. Cure.

Treatment for unbearable heart/abdominal pain.

Between the nail and flesh at the tip of the big toe, male left, female right, moxa 5 cones. Moxa cone size like wheat grain. Empirical Formula: When Jing Qifang served as granary official, a maid suffered this, unbearable pain. Colleague Guo Luwang transmitted this method, leading to immediate cure.

Treatment for heart/abdominal pain with vomiting/reversal. Moxa Zhongwan (CV12) 300 cones.

Treatment for heart/abdominal strangulating/stabbing pain unbearable. Yinxi (HT6) bilateral, moxa 300 cones.